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It's been eight months since
my last Book Roundup -- a major lapse on my part. I started working
on this a few months back, then lost track again. At this point I suspect
I'm far enough behind that I'll need two more columns just to catch up,
but at this point I'm only 15 books into the next one, so don't expect
them to come out bang-bang-bang like previous catch-ups. One thing that
will slow down the pace a bit is that I've started to simply note the
existence of additional books following the forty I've written something
on. Usually this is because I don't have anything non-obvious to say.
Often, it's just that the book is worth knowing about, but unlikely to
be worth reading. Some I may return to eventually, should I change my
mind.

Given my delays, I've actually managed to read several of these
books: Allen Frances: Twilight of American Sanity, David Frum:
Trumpocracy, Mark Lilla: The Once and Future Liberal,
and Sean Wilentz: The Politicians & the Egalitarians. I'm
also about 400 pages into Steve Coll: Directorate S, and I've
bought copies but haven't yet gotten to Jennifer M Silva: Coming
Up Short, Amy Siskind: The List. I can't really say that
any of these books are "must read," but I have learned things from
each.

My main complaint about the Coll book is that by focusing on
the CIA, ISI, and NDS (the Afghan counterpart) he's very rapidly
skipped over the most ill-fated US decisions, like the conviction
that the US can simply dictate Pakistan's behavior, and the blanket
rejection of any possible Taliban role. But he also only barely
touches on the CIA's continued support of their Afghan warlord
clients even after the Karzai government was formed. I'm currently
up to 2009, with McChrystal still in charge of the surging military,
and Holbrooke still among the living (if not among the functional) --
two things I know will change soon.

Kurt Andersen: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire
(2017, Random House): Big picture history of America, strikes me
as like one of those creative writing assignments meant to let your
imagination run wild -- probably helps that the author has a couple
of novels to his credit. Still, shouldn't be hard to fill up 480 pp.
with stories of America's tenuous love/hate relationship to reality.
Nor has the election and regime of Donald Trump given us reason to
doubt that we're living in a Fantasyland. And clearly Trump was on
the author's mind -- probably the reason Alec Baldwin hired him as
co-author of their cash-in book, You Can't Spell America Without
Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year
as President Donald J. Trump (A So-Called Parody).

Benjamin R Barber: Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix
for Global Warming (2017, Yale University Press): Political
and cultural theorist, wrote a book I was impressed by back in 1971,
Superman and Common Men: Freedom, Anarchy and the Revolution,
and a couple dozen books since then: two that intrigued me but always
seemed a bit too flip were Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and
Tribalism Are Reshaping the World (1996) and Consumed: How
Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens
Whole (2007). Turned his eye toward cities with his 2013 book,
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities,
to which this is a sequel, focusing on the relative energy efficiency
of cities. Sad to read that he died, about a month after this book
came out.

Ronen Bergman: Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of
Israel's Targeted Assassinations (2018, Random House):
Big (756 pp) book by the Yedioth Ahronoth military analyst.
I doubt there are many secrets here -- Israel has a long history of
bragging about its secret agency exploits -- but the scale of the
killings may come as a surprise. Some time ago, I spent time looking
at a database of prominent Palestinians, and the sheer number of
them killed by Israel was pretty eye-opening.

Max Boot: The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American
Tragedy in Vietnam (2018, Liveright): Another attempt to find
a scapegoat for the American failure in Vietnam, in this case arguing
that if only American leaders had followed the advice of CIA operative
Lansdale everything would have worked out for the better. This is an
appalling argument in lots of ways. For one thing, Lansdale did have
an outsized influence on the decision to cancel elections and stick by
Diem's corrupt and vicious regime. Beyond that, Lansdale's successors
were always going to view the war as a test of American resolve and
power, and they were always going to be contemptuous of the Vietnamese
and profoundly uninterested in their welfare. The real tragedy of the
war in Vietnam was the failure of America's class of strategic thinkers
to learn some humility and restraint following their imperial overreach,
as is evidenced by repeated failures in numerous more recent wars.

Paul Butler: Chokehold: Policing Black Men (2017,
New Press). One of several recent books on how the criminal justice
system is stacked against black men, written by a former federal
prosecutor who's been there and done that. Previously wrote Let's
Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (2009). Also see: Angela
J Davis, ed: Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and
Imprisonment (2017, Random House); Jordan T Camp/Christina
Heatherton, eds: Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis
Led to Black Lives Matter (paperback, 2016, Verso Books).

Ta-Nehisi Coates: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American
Tragedy (2017, One World): A collection of essays, some new,
including "Fear of a Black President," "The Case for Reparations,"
and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration" -- important
work. Still, I never quite got the feeling that "we were in power"
during Obama's two terms, even the first two years when Democrats
had large majorities in Congress but let Max Baucus decide life and
death issues; meanwhile Robert Gates was Secretary of Defense and
Ben Bernanke chaired the Fed.

Steve Coll: Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret
Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2018, Penguin Press):
Coll's second book about America's misadventure in Afghanistan
(and schizophrenic alliance with Pakistan), bringing the story
started in Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan,
and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
(2004) up to date. Of course, the post-9/11 US invasion and still
ongoing occupation of Afghanistan hasn't exactly been a secret,
but presumably this focuses more on the CIA role there rather
than chronicling the ham-fisted DOD and their NATO proxies. No
doubt an important book, but I expect it leaves much uncovered.

Peter Cozzens: The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of
the Indian Wars for the American West (2016, Knopf; paperback,
2017, Vintage Books): Covers every front over a 30 year stretch,
1861-1891, during which white Americans fought numerous wars,
brokered treaties (and often broke them), ultimately herding Native
Americans into a few barren reservations and closing the frontier.
Author worked for the State Department, and has written a number
of military histories of the Civil War.

Larry Derfner: No Country for Jewish Liberals
(2017, Just World Books): A Jewish journalist from Los Angeles,
typically liberal, moved to Israel and surveys the intolerant,
closed, often vicious society he encounters. I've maintained
for some time now that constant war even more than greed and
corruption (both plenty in evidence) has been responsible for
so many Americans abandoning their liberal traditions. Same
thing applies to Israel, even more so given the relative
intensity of their militarism (a universal draft, for Jews
anyway) and their incessant cult of victimhood.

EJ Dionne Jr/Norman J Ornstein/Thomas E Mann: One Nation
After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the
Desperate, and the Not-Yet-Deported (2017, St Martin's
Press): Quickie from three authors who've made careers explaining,
as Dionne put it in his 1992 book, Why Americans Hate Politics --
the others are best known for their 2012 dissection of Congress,
It's Even Worse Than It Looks. Dionne seems to be the
unshakable optimist -- another of his titles is They Only Look
Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era --
but these days I find the assumption that there will still be "one
nation after Trump" to be ungrounded.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness,
the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
(2018, Twelve): Seems to be a sequel to her 2009 book Bright-sided:
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined
America, her critical instincts sharpened by another decade of
getting older (78) and more acquainted with mortality. I've been
expecting her to write a major book on the high cost of being poor
in America -- a subject she's written several essays about recently.
Hope she gets to that. I might also wish she'd explore the inner
madness of the Trump voter, but she anticipated all that in her
1989 book Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class.

Jesse Eisinger: The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department
Fails to Prosecute Executives (2017, Simon & Schuster):
Investigates the fact that none of the bank executives responsible
for the 2008 meltdown and ensuing recession were ever charged with
crimes (although eventually a number of substantial fines were paid
by newly profitable companies the public had bailed out, most often
leaving their management in place). Nor is it just bankers who seem
to be able to get away with whatever. Blames timid prosecutors, but
to make sense of it all you'd have to work through the lax regulation
companies are subjected to, and the widespread respect civil servants
seem to have for money and well-heeled executives.

Neil Faulkner: A People's History of the Russian Revolution
(paperback, 2017, Pluto Press): One-hundred years later, emphasizes
the revolutionary parts of the Russian Revolution, the parts that
tore down one of the most corrupt and decadent aristocracies in Europe
and tried to build a broad-based alternative -- before violence and
paranoia took its toll. In today's post-Soviet era we're inclined to
see the revolution and its aftermath as continuous tragedy, which is
only true if you forget the injustices of the world it swept away.

Allen Frances: Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist
Analyzes the Age of Trump (2017, William Morrow): Argues
that Trump is not technically insane, but raises many pertinent
questions about whether America as a whole. The opening section on
truths Americans reject and myths they embrace is a garden variety
liberal list, but this gets more interesting when he goes on to
root our understanding of psychology in Darwin rather than Freud.
Tricky terrain: I think easy psychological labels are misleading,
yet don't doubt that deeply seated mental processes are serving us
poorly when we think about politics these days.

David Frum: Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American
Republic (2018, Harper): Former Bush speechwriter, has of
late argued that Republicans should pay more heed to the needs of
their base voters and less to their moneyed elites, which makes
him sympathetic with the popular impulse of Trump's campaign and
critical of the reality of his administration. Useful mostly for
detailing the myriad ways Trump is bound up in corruption, and
unflinching in its criticism of other Republicans for condoning
and enabling his treachery. Would be more trenchant if only he
realized that corruption is the coin of the Republican realm --
not just a side-effect of a political philosophy dedicated to
making the rich richer but a way of keeping score.

David Goodhart: The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and
the Future of Politics (2017, Hurst): British editor of
Prospect magazine, wrote a previous book The British Dream:
Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration, takes the Brexit
vote and Trump's win as signposts for a right-wing revolt he deems
to be populist. I regard those wins as flukes: possible only because
serious economic interests were lucky enough to find themselves with
enemies that could be blamed for all the evils of neoliberalism. Most
elections don't break quite like that -- e.g., the post-Brexit UK
elections.

Linda Gordon: The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan
of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (2017,
Liveright): The original KKK was formed in the 1970s to restore
white supremacy in the South through the use of terror. Its work
was largely done by the 1890s with the adoption of Jim Crow laws
across the South and into parts of the North. In the 1910s Woodrow
Wilson extended Jim Crow to the federal government, and the movie
Birth of a Nation romanticized the old KKK, leading to a
resurgence that grew beyond the South. This is the history of the
latter movement, how it grew and why it crumbled (not that remnants
haven't survived to the present day).

David Cay Johnston: It's Even Worse Than You Think: What
the Trump Administration Is Doing to America (2018, Simon
& Schuster): Journalist, has written several books on how the
economic system is rigged for the rich, and has also written a
couple of books about one such rich person in particular: Donald
Trump. Therefore, he started well ahead of the learning curve
when Trump became president. Hopefully he goes deeper as a result.
Probably a good companion to Amy Siskind: The List: A Week-by-Week
Reckoning of Trump's First Year.

Gilles Kepel: Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the
West (2017, Princeton University Press): French political
scientist and Arab expert, wrote Jihad: The Trail of Political
Islam (2000 in French where the subtitle was Expansion et
Déclin de l"Islamisme; 2002 in English with an afterward on
how 9/11 seemed like a desperate ploy to reverse the decline --
thanks mostly to GW Bush it worked), with a steady stream of books
since then. This covers recent terror attacks in France and their
socioeconomic context. Also new is a thin book by the other famous
French jihad expert, Olivier Roy: Jihad and Death: The Global
Appeal of Islamic State (2017, Oxford University Press).

Sheelah Kolhatkar: Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty
Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall
Street (2017, Random House): About Stephen A Cohen and
SAC Capital, although the former was never indicted for his
hedge fund's insider dealing.

Robert Kuttner: Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
(2018, WW Norton): Could have filed this with the warnings against
right-wing populism, but this goes deeper, seeing the global expansion
of capitalism since the 1970s, and especially the tendency of those
same capitalists to game supposedly democratic systems, at the root
of the crisis. The problem has less to do with authoritarian wannabes
and their fans than with corporate managers and financiers seeking to
exempt business from any form of public restraint. The results may
still bear some formal resemblance to democracy, but not the kind
where most people can force the system to treat them fairly. When
you think of it that way, the question becomes "has democracy
survived global capitalism"? One could answer "no."

Brandy Lee: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists
and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (2017, Thomas Dunne
Books): The "consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists
[is] that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear
and present danger to the nation and our own mental health." Sounds
about right, but then I recall having long ago become a fan of Thomas
Szasz's work, particularly his The Myth of Mental Illness, and
I myself have been diagnosed as mentally ill by various shrinks, both
credentialed and not. Indeed, I doubt it would be hard to sketch out
unflattering psychological portraits of anyone who's become president
since 1900 (I'm hedging a bit on McKinley but Teddy Roosevelt was mad
as a hatter, and half of his successors are comparably easy pickings).
Indeed, there's little reason to expect that people we elect to the
nation's highest (and presumably most coveted) office should be even
close to "normal." On the other hand, Trump is certainly an outlier,
especially in his lack of understanding how government works, perhaps
even more importantly in his lack of concern for how his acts affect
people. Psychologists have compiled a thick book of diagnoses for
traits like that (e.g., see "sociopath"), but much of that behavior
can also be explained by looking at his class background -- how he
inherited and then played with his wealth, parlaying it for fame in
his peculiarly own ego-gratifying terms. Moreover, psychoanalyzing
him misses the fact that he rules through other people, who while
having their own fair share of foibles have aligned thermselves
with Trump more for political and/or ideological reasons -- and
that, I think, is where we should focus our critiques. (Not, mind
you, that I doubt Trump's stark-raving bonkers.)

Mark Lilla: The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity
Politics (2017, Harper Collins). Short essay rushed out
following the Trump election. Argues that liberals need to seek
the moral high ground by focusing on universal rights and values
instead of what he sees as their recent indulgence in cultivating
"identity groups." "Identity politics" is a term much bandied
about, near-meaningless with ominous overtones, probably because
the right has been rather successful at fragmenting people into
tribes and motivating them to vote to thwart the plans of rival
tribes. On the other hand, literally everyone votes because of
some identity they've developed -- which need not be ethnic or
racial or religious, but could just as well be class or even a
sense of the positive value of diversity. Liberalism would be
an identity too, except that liberals have been running away
from the label for 30-40 years now, which has only encouraged
conservatives to pile on. Lilla at least is trying to reassert
some universal values.

Angela Nagle: Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From
4Chan and Tumblr to Trump the Alt-Right (paperback, 2017,
Zero Books): Short (156 pp) survey of "culture war" rants on the
internet, mostly from the "alt-right" but takes a few jabs at
supposed lefties for balance. Argues that there's way too much
of this stuff, and (I think) that we'd be better off with more
taste and mutual respect (as long as that doesn't seem like
some sort of radical leftist stance).

Rachel Pearson: No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age
on the Front Lines of American Medicine (2017, WW Norton):
By "front lines" she means the leaky bottom of the safety net,
where patients can get diagnosed but are left untreated because
they too indigent or not indigent enough.

Kim Phillips-Fein: Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and
the Rise of Austerity Politics (2017, Metropolitan Books):
In 1975 New York City risked bankruptcy, and one famous newspaper
headline read: "Ford to City: Drop Dead." Banker Felix Rohatyn
intervened, staving off the crisis but forcing the city to adopt
various changes, including ending its practice of free college.
Phillips-Fein previously wrote an important book on the rise of
the right in America: Invisible Hands: The Making of the
Conservative Movement From the New Deal to Reagan (2009),
and sees this as yet another chapter in that rise -- all the
more notable today as austerity is the right's standard answer
to public debt.

Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason,
Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018, Viking): Author of
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,
continues expanding his case for optimism at a time when contrary
evidence is so overwhelming it threatens to bury us. I think he
has a point -- indeed, a number of them -- but one shouldn't fail
to notice that anti-Enlightenment, anti-Progressive thinking has
grabbed considerable political power (at least in the US), so much
so that most Americans regard war as a permanent condition, and
many see no problem with inequality hardening into oligarchy.

Robert B Reich: The Common Good (2018, Knopf):
For better or worse, a true liberal. His most famous book, The
Work of Nations (1991), was built around one of the worst ideas
of our time -- one which, I might add, was the reason Bill Clinton
hired him as Secretary of Labor -- and also offered one of the
sharpest observations of how life was changing due to increasing
inequality. The latter: how the rich were separating and isolating
themselves from everyone else, most obviously by moving into gated
communities and even more rarefied spaces (like Trump Tower and
Mar-A-Lago). The former: his idea how Americans could survive the
ongoing process of financial globalization, including the decline
of manufacturing industries, by retraining workers to become what
he called "symbolic manipulators." In point of fact, it was never
possible for more than a tiny sliver of American workers to become
"symbol manipulators," it was a convenient rationalization for
neoliberals like Clinton to embrace globalization and growing
inequality. One might argue that ever since Reich left Clinton's
cabinet, he has been trying to do penance for his role there.
He's written another dozen books, trying to defend key liberal
ideas and save capitalism in the process. This at least is on a
key idea that has taken a beating from conservatives: the idea
that there is "a common good" as opposed to numerous individual
goods that markets allow competition for. He also notes that the
common good is built from "virtuous cycles that reinforce and
build" as opposed to "vicious cycles that undermine it." We have
been stuck in the latter for decades now, and it's cumulatively
taking a huge toll. So this is an important concept, even if I
don't particularly trust the messenger.

Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of
How Our Government Segregated America (2017, Liveright):
Going back as far as the 1920s, argues that what we think of as de
facto segregation has been significantly shaped by law and public
policy, even after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 supposedly put an
end to all that.

Jennifer M Silva: Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in
an Age of Uncertainty (paperback, 2015, Oxford University Press):
Short book based on one-hundred interviews with young working class adults
in Massachusetts and Virginia, finding their opportunities limited and
fleeting as the right-wing attack on unions and the welfare state has
focused more on kicking the ladder out for future generations than on
wrecking the lives of their elders. Silva also did interviews for Robert
D Putnam's Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis.

Amy Siskind: The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's
First Year (2018, Bloomsbury): "A national spokesperson,
writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed" --
a noble career, no doubt, derailed by her decision to compile weekly
blog posts on all the unprecedentedly strange things Trump and his
minions have done as they were reported. Early on she came up with
6-9 items per week, but over time that list grew to as many as 150,
a quantity that not only means much is slipping through the cracks
even in our 24/7 news obsession, but which has overloaded and numbed
our sense of outrage and even our ability to analyze. This compiles
a year of those reports, a mere 528 pages. Good chance this will
endure as an essential sourcebook for the year.

Ali Soufan: Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden
to the Rise of the Islamic State (2017, WW Norton): Former
FBI agent, famed for his expert interrogation of terror suspects --
he's the subject of a chapter in Lawrence Wright's The Terror
Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State, and author of the
book, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War
Against al-Qaeda (2011).

Cass R Sunstein: #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of
Social Media (2017, Princeton University Press): Occasionally
interesting MOR Democratic theorist, takes his shot here at trashing
the internet for propagating self-selected, self-confirming nonsense
that divides people into hostile camps incapable of empathy with or
understanding of anyone but themselves. This, of course, has been
pretty much the high-brow critique of media since Gutenberg, the
main point that it detracts from people blindly following whatever
experts are sanctified by whoever has the power to do that sort of
thing. I suppose there's some truth this time around, but I'd look
at the vested interests using social media for their propaganda (ok,
they call it advertising) before concluding that "the media is the
message."

Charles J Sykes: How the Right Lost Its Mind (2017,
St Martin's Press): Former "longtime host of the #1 conservative
talk-radio show in Wisconsin," now "a regular contributor to MSNBC,"
features a Trump-like hat on the cover and evidently focuses on how
conservatives wound up flocking to Trump. Sounds like he's failed
to make the necessary distinction between why the Right lost its
mind and things the Right did after having lost its mind. The former
would be an interesting book, although it actually isn't so mysterious:
the only real political principle behind conservatism is the defense
of wealth and privilege, and that's intrinsically a hard sell in a
real democracy, so the Right has to hide their soul behind a lot of
incidental sales pitches. The latter is just sad and pathetic, like
so much recent American history.

Heather Ann Thompson: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (2016, Pantheon; paperback,
2017, Vintage Books): A major history of the 1971 Attica prison
uprising, its brutal suppression, and the decades-long legal fight
that followed. When this happened my philosophy 101 professor at
Wichita State was so disturbed he ditched his lesson plan to talk
about what happened. Later I became friends with a lawyer who put
most of her career into this case, the extraordinary Elizabeth Fink,
so it feels like I've tracked this story all my life. The enduring
lesson is how much contempt and disdain people in power have for
the people they condemn as criminals, and how that hatred and fear
can lead them to do things as bad or worse.

Katy Tur: Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest
Campaign in American History (2017, Dey Street Books): NBC
News correspondent assigned to cover Trump's campaign, where she
evidently fact-checked, challenged, and generally made herself a
nuissance, while visiting 40 states and filing 3800 live television
reports. Sounds like it must have been much worse than "craziest"
implies.

Richard White: The Republic for Which It Stands: The
United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
(2017, Oxford University Press): A new volume in The Oxford History
of the United States, originally planned by C. Vann Woodward and
Richard Hofstadter back in the 1950s, with the first volumes appearing
in 1982 (Robert Middlekauff on 1763-1789) and 1988 (James M. McPherson
on the Civil War), and David M. Kennedy (whose 1929-1945 volume came
out in 1999) taking over after Woodward's death. Each of the eleven
period volumes (plus a 12th on US foreign relations) is close to 1000
pages, and the few I've looked at (3 remain unpublished) are remarkably
imposing tomes.

Sean Wilentz: The Politicians & the Egalitarians: The
Hidden History of American Politics (paperback, 2017, WW
Norton): A major historian, though much more reliable on The
Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln than on
The Age of Reagan: A History 1974-2000, offers a book
of scattered essays, mostly book reviews. Useful for reminding
ourselves how prevalent the egalitarian impulse is in American
history, and how often pragmatic politicians fall short of even
their own professed ideals.

Lawrence Wright: The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the
Islamic State (2016; paperback, 2017, Vintage Books): Author
of one of the best general histories of Al-Qaeda and 9/11, The
Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006), updates
the story with scattered pieces -- mostly profiles of more or less
related individuals although nothing like a comprehensive update
of the ensuing history.

Other recent books also noted without comment:

Alec Baldwin/Kurt Andersen: You Can't Spell America Without
Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as
President Donald J. Trump (A So-Called Parody) (2017, Penguin
Press).

Krystal Ball: Reversing the Apocalypse: Hijacking the
Democratic Party to Save the World (2017, Pelican Media).